Cash-register.



W. H. MUZZY.

CASH REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 28,:1909.

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Patented Apr. 30, 1912.

W. H. M Y.

H RE TER.

APPLIQA rum) MAY 28, 1909.

Patented Apr. 30, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. MUZZY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE NATIONAL CASH REGIS- 'IER COMPANY, OF DAYTON, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO, (INCORPORATED IN CASH-REGISTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 28, 1909. Serial No. 498,935.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. MUZZY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash-Reg isters, of which I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in cash registers and more particularly to the recording mechanism for registers.

The principal objeotof the invention is to provide an improved means for the taking of impressions upon a check and record strip of a cash register.

With this and incidental objects in view,

the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combination of parts, the essential elements of which are set forth in appended claims and a preferred form of embodiment of which is hereinafter described with reference to the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification.

Of said drawings, Figure 1 is a central transverse section through a type of machine shown in the Patent No. 683,877, granted to Thomas Carney, October 1, 1901. Fig. 2 is an end view of the type of machine above mentioned showing the printing mechanism. with the printer hood in section. Figs. 3 and 4 are views of the opposite sides of the check used in connection with the printing mechanism shown in Fig. 2.

This invention has been shown applied to a type of machine illustrated in the patent to Thomas Carney above mentioned, but it is to be understood that it may be, with equal facility, applied to other types of machines.

The operating keys 1 of the machine are centrally pivoted upon a transverse shaft 2, and at their rear ends are provided with uprights 3. These keys, as is well known, are divided into banks and the uprights 3 of each bank are graduated and impart a differential movement to a registering frame 1. Each of these frames 1 is mounted upon a transverse shaft 5, and is provided with a segment 6, which meshes wit-h a pinion 7. There are as many pinions 7 as there are banks of keys and each pinion is secured to the inner end of one of a series of nested sleeves 8, which surround a shaft 9, or to the shaft. To the outer ends of the sleeves and shaft are secured type wheels or carriers 10, hereinafter described.

A universal bar or coupler 11 is pivoted above and to the side frames 12 of the ma-- chine with the free end of said coupler resting upon the upper sides of the keys. Projecting from one side of the bar 11 is a pin 13, which plays in an elongated slot 14:, formed approximately in the center of a double face rack bar 15. the keys 1 is operated, the coupler 11 will be oscillated thereby through means of the pin 13 and slot 14 impart a reciprocatory movement to the rack 15. As this rack ascends, the teeth on one side of it will engage with a pinion 16 secured to a shaft 17, and give the latter a half turn. As the rack reaches the limit of its upward movement, it will be shifted by a spring 18, as is well known in the art, so that the teeth on the other side of said rack will engage the pinion and continue the rotation of the shaft 17 as the rack descends.

Upon the rear ends. of the keys 1 are mounted standards 19 which carry at their upper ends indicators 20 corresponding to the denominations of the keys 1. Approximately in the center and extending rearwardly from the standards 19 are lugs 21., which pass above and are retained in their elevated positions by a supporting frame 22 upon the operation of any of the keys, this frame 22 being rocked in a manner well known and fully described in the previously mentioned patent.

The type carriers 10, as previously described, are secured to the outer ends of the sleeves 8 and shaft 9, and are provided with characters corresponding to the denominations upon the keys. Directly belowthe type carriers is a platen 23 mounted in the forward end of an arm 24, which is pivoted to one of the side frames 12, at its rear end. This arm is provided with an offset 25, which is engaged by a cam 26 secured to the outer end of the rotary shaft 17, to depress the arm 2 1 carrying the platen 23 against the tension of a compression spring 27. When the high point of the cam 26 passes the offset 25, which is at the end of the down stroke of the key, the

spring 27 will quickly throw the arm 24:-

As any one of upwardly carrying the platen 23 into contact with the type carriers 10. Between the type carriers 10 and the platen 23 is a record strip 23, which passes from a supply roll 29 around guide pins 30 and 31 to a storage roll 32, and an endless ink ribbon 33, which passes around an ink supply roll 34 and suitable guide rolls. The record strip is fed forward upon each operation of the machine by mechanism operated from the key coupler and which in turn feeds the inking ribbon through suitable intervening gearing, as fully described in the aforementioned patent.

The above described printing mechanism is inclosed in a hood 35, which is hinged to the side frame of the machine, and at its front is provided with a slot 36 through which a check 37 is arranged to be inserted. The check 37, when inserted, is arranged to rest upon a ledge 38, extending forwardly and rearwardly from the front wall of the hood 35, and held there from accidental displacement by a leaf spring 39, secured to the inner side of the front wall of the hood above the ledge 38. The check, at its lower end, as shown in Fig. l, is coated with suitable transferring material 39, so that, when inserted, in the machine, this coated portion of the check will be directly above the platen 23, and between the record strip and the inking ribbon with the trans ferring material facing the record strip. The face of the check, as shown in Jig. 3, is provided with three short lines t0, which, when the check is inserted in the slot 36, are arranged to register with the upper edge of the front wall of the hood forming the slot so as to act as an index as whether the other end of the check is in position to receive an impression from the type carriers. receive three impressions from the type carriers, but if it is desired to enter more transactions upon the check, it is only necessary to add more index lines and extend the transferring material farther up the back of said check.

It will be seen from the above description, that when the machine is operated in the absence of the check, the entry will be made upon the record strip through the inking ribbon 33, but when the check is in the machine the entry will be "made upon the check through the inking ribbon and simultaneously upon the record strip through the carbon upon the back of the cheek.

In order to indicate upon the record strip when the machine has been operated in the absence of the check, it is arranged to have the inking ribbon 33 of a different color than that of the carbon upon the back of the check, so that the entries made upon the strip through the ribbon in the absence The check, as shown, is adapted to roe awe of the check will be of one color and the entries made through the carbonized check of another color.

lVhile the form of mechanism herein shown and described is admirably adapted to fulfil the objects primarily stated, it is to be understood that it is not intended to confine the invention to the one form of embodiment herein disclosed, for it is susceptible of embodiment in various forms all coming within the scope of the claims which follow.

What is claimed is:

1. In a cash register, the combination with a recording mechanism comprising type carriers and a record strip, means for taking an impression upon the record strip from the type carriers, and a check having transferring material upon one side interposed between the type carriers and the record strip so as to receive the impres sion from the type carriers and through means of the transferring material reproduce the impression upon the record strip.

2. In a cash register, the combination with a recording mechanism comprising type carriers and a record strip, of an inking ribbon interposed between the type carriers and the record strip, means for taking an impression from the type carriers through the ribbon upon the record strip, anda check having a carbonized back interposed between the inking ribbon and the strip so as to receive the impression from the type carriers and through the carbonized back transfer the impression upon the record strip.

3. In a cash register, the combination with a recording mechanism comprising type carriers and a record strip, of an inking ribbon interposed between the type carriers and the record strip, a spring operated hammer for taking an impression from the type carriers through the ribbon upon the record strip, and a check having a carbonized back inter posed between the inking ribbon and the strip so as to receive the impression from the type carriers and through the carbonized back transfer the impression upon the record strip.

4:. In a cash register, the combination with a recording mechanism comprising type carriers and a record strip, of an inking ribbon, means for taking an impression from the type carriers through the ribbon upon the record strip, and a check having transferring material upon one side of a different color than the ribbon, interposed between the ribbon and the strip so as to receive the impression from the type carriers and through means of the transferring material reproduce the impression upon the record strip, which reproduction will be of a different color, than when the impression is madleg upon the strip in the absence of the chec 5. In a cash register, the combination with a recording mechanism comprising type carriers and a record strip, means for taking an impression upon the record strip from the type carriers, a check interposed between the type carriers and the strip so as to receive the impression simultaneously with the strip, said impression means making the impression upon the strip in a different color in the absence of the check.

6. In a cash register, the combination with a recording mechanism comprising type carriers and a record strip, a check interposed between the type carriers and the strip, means for taking an impression upon the check and through the latter upon the record strip, and means for indicating upon the strip whether the check has been impressed.

7 In a cash register, the combination with a recording mechanism comprising type carriers for a record strip, of means for taking an impression upon the record strip from the type carriers, a check, having transferring material upon a portionof one side, arranged to be interposed between the type carriers and the record strip so as to receive the impression from the type carriers and through means of the transferring material to reproduce the impression upon the record strip, said check having markings upon the other side thereof for indicating when the portion of the check bearing the transferring material is in position to transfer the impression to the record strip.

8. In a cash register, the combination with a recording mechanism comprising type carriers for a record strip, of means for taking an impression upon the record strip from the type carriers, a hood inclosing the recording mechanism and having an opening formed therein, a check, having transferring material upon a portion of one side, arranged to be lnserted through the opening and between the type carriers and the record strip so as to receive the impression from the type carriers and through means of the transferring material reproduce the impression upon the record strip, said check having index lines upon the other side there- .of registering with the edge of the hood formed by the opening therein for indicating when the portion of the check bearing the transferring material is in position to transfer the impression to the record strip.

9. The combination with a cash register, having recording mechanism comprising type carriers and a record strip and including means for taking an impression on the record strip from the type carriers, of a check for receiving impressions from the type carriers when interposed between the type carriers and the record strip and adapted to transfer the impression in a difierent color to the strip.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. MUZZY.

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